Now everybody can make pingbacks, not just paid accounts

Which is great. azurelunatic has a whole post here about the benefits of pingbacks and when you should set them up and the whole point of this all.

However, sadly, she misses the most important reason to enable pingbacks! You should enable pingbacks because the pingback_bot is super cute. *nodnodnod* It's like having a kitten randomly visit your journal and be friendly, except it's a robot and doesn't say anything other than "Hey, somebody linked to you".

Edit: If you guys all link to this so I can see the cute little pingback bot in my comments (remember, you have to enable it or it won't work!), I'll be thrilled.

Okay, so nobody wants to meet up in California.

(If you do, I'll be there from the 23rd for about a week.)

Last time, we just about had my grandmother convinced to ditch my uncle, but when we left... *shrugs*

He spent the whole time trying to convince us she's senile, you know. She's not, though - so she can make her own choices, right?

I'm SO not looking forward to this trip. I think I'll spend my time cooking. A. I do it better than Gabriel and B. I like cooking and C. I need something to do.

I won't be baking (good god, in Escondido????), but any other recipes? I can't do anything with a thousand niggling steps, is all. I'll take any recipes you can find and run with them, make some good dinners, maybe a few different lunches as well.